Word: hindenburg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Commission also will regulate wages and working conditions on subsidized ships, sell or charter five Government-owned lines and decide whether the U. S. should help finance a fleet of airships like the Hindenburg...
...plopped into the sea. Of the large rigid airships built since the War only those of Germany have been successful-the Los Angeles, now in retirement at Lakehurst, the stalwart old Graf Zeppelin, still shuttling the South Atlantic after carrying some 13,000 passengers without harm, and the new Hindenburg, which runs as safely on the same route...
...Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, is the nation's No. 1 airship man. Week after week for years articles and speeches by Commander Rosendahl have peppered the pages of newspapers and aviation magazines. Dozens of expert committees have made reports agreeing with him. But until Germany's Hindenburg made its spectacularly successful flights last summer, Commander Rosendahl's pleadings bounced off the U. S. public like a topped golf ball off a frozen green...
...made last spring by his predecessor, Rear Admiral Ernest J. King: for the U. S. to begin immediately the construction of a metal-hulled airship of 1,500,000 cu. ft. capacity, a larger airship of 2,500,000 cu. ft., a still larger one comparable to the German Hindenburg, which has a capacity...
...Italy's, except that hers had been committed after the World War, which was presumed to have ended aggression, but hadn't. ... As had happened in India and elsewhere, my preconceived ideals were reluctantly shouldered aside by less high-minded, practical considerations." After flying home on the Hindenburg, Webb Miller retreated last May to Connecticut to write his book...